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PEOPLE v. HEFLIN

Docket Nos. 79423, 83994, (Calendar Nos. 10-11).

434 Mich. 482 (1990)

456 N.W.2d 10

PEOPLE v. HEFLIN PEOPLE v. LANDRUM

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided April 30, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, Juris Kaps, Prosecuting Attorney, and J. Michael James, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people in Heflin.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, Joseph S. Filip, Prosecuting Attorney, and Jerrold Schrotenboer, Chief Appellate Attorney, for the people in Landrum.

State Appellate Defender (by F. Michael Schuck) for the defendants.

Amicus Curiae:

Mogill, Posner & Cohen (by Marjory B. Cohen) for Women Lawyers Association of Michigan.

RILEY, C.J.

In these cases, consolidated for purposes of appeal, we are asked to determine whether the trial courts erred in refusing to give jury instructions on common-law and statutory involuntary manslaughter1 and self-defense. If we conclude that the trial courts erred, then we must also decide whether the errors were harmless.

In People v Heflin, we hold that the trial court did not err in refusing to instruct the...

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